Hosiery and method of making same



A. E. MARGERISON ET AL 1,878,416

HOSIERY AND METHOD 0 MAKING SAME Filed July 10, 1951 INVENTORS ATTORNEYS Sept. 20, 1.932.

Patented Sept. 20, 1932 NITED smTEs PATENT tries a ALBERT E. MARGERISON AND CARL It. HAHN, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

ASSIGNORS TO MOGK, JUDSON, VOEHBINGER COMPANY, INC., PHILADELPHIA,

ZPENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE HOSIERY AND METHOlj OF MAKING SAME Application filed July 10, 1931.

The invention relates to a novel form of knit'istockings and to the method of making the same, and is more particularly directed to the knitting of full fashioned hosiery provided with a turned welt at the top connected to the body portion by an initial loose course and a final picot course, comprising alternate loops displaced late-rally the distance of one loop to form an anti-ravel or non-run course.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a magnified section of the fabric at the junction of the welt and the body portion of the stocking.

Referring to the drawing, B indicates the body portion of the stocking, which may be a plain knit fabric consisting of regular coursesfi. The welt is indicated; as a whole by the reference W, W denoting the back of the welt and W the front thereof. The initial course of the welt is a loose course 1, which is succeeded by the necessary number of plain courses 2 to form the back and a similar series of plain courses 3 forming the front of the welt, the final course 4 of the g welt being a picot course having double loops engaging alternate pairs of loops 5 in the first course of the body B and single loops connecting successive loops 3 of the welt, the sinker loops of the loose course 1 being knit into the first course 5 of the body B, the juncture of the welt and body formed by the loose course 1 and the picot course 4 producing an open work effect, which may be pleasingly enhanced by making the picot course i of thread of different color from that used in the other courses.

The fabric may be knit on any of the stand-- ard straight machines provided with a picot bar and in operation the first course 1 of the welt section is formed in the usual manner by bringing the loose course mechanism into operation, the object of said loose course being to facilitate the turning of the welt and the joining of the welt with the body portion of the fabric.

The desired number of plain or regular courses is then knit, determined by the length of the .welt, the final course being a loose course, which is converted into a picot course by bringing the picot bar into action,

. last knit course.

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after which the welt is turned by the regular operation of the welt bar mechanism, which is followed by the transfer of the loops or stitches on the welt bar to the needles and the initial plain course 5 of the body portion B is formed and followed by the desired number of such plain courses.

As a typical example of forming the Welt and uniting the same to the body. portion, there are knit 120 courses, the first being a loose course, constituting the back of the welt, followed by 8 courses which form the top of the stocking, and continuing with 120 courses constituting the front of the Welt. After finishing the 119th course of the last series, the 120th is formed as a loose course and the picot bar is brought into-operation,

said bar carrying points which transfer alternate loops or stitches to intermediate needles, so that there are two loops or stitches on every other needle and no loops on intervening needles. A When this operation is completed, the welt is turned by the welt bar, which transfers the loops to needles, so that alternate needles carry one and three loops, respectively, in the order indicated in the drawing. The machine is then operated to run the first course 5 of the body portion B, so that the initial loose course 1 of the welt is knit into the course 5 in regular order and the picot course 4 is inter-knit with the last plain course of the welt and the first courseof the body in the manner and form shown. It will be noted that, by this method, the transferred loops will extend directly from the needle loops of the previously knit course to their next adjacent loops between the next adjacent loops and their respective incident loops of the first knit course. Thus the transferred loops will not pass through the first knit course and around the inside face of the welt to be entangled with loops of the first knit course, but instead will lie entirely on the same side of the first knit course as the It will be understood that the so-called plain or regular courses may be of any desired type usually employed in fabricating articles v of this character; that is to say, the body of the fabric may be made in accordance with any of the standard modes of'knitting designed to produce plain, ribbed, lace and similar fabrics with or without color schemes or variations, such asstripes or geometrical patterns, produced by the usual standard practice. The term plain or regular as applied to the fabric is, therefore, to be interpreted as applying to and indicating the normal or typical form of knitting employed in those portions of the fabric other than the their respective neighboringloops,thereafter.

turning the welt by putting loops of the first course of the welt together with loops of thelast course and thereafter drawing loops of the first course of the leg fabric through the loops of the first and last courses of the welt fabricand then continuing the knitting of the leg fabric.

2'. The method of knitting a turned welt which comprises knitting the first course of the welt with elongated loops, knitting successive courses of the welt fabric, knitting the last course of the welt with elongated loops, transferring alternate loops of the last course laterally to put them together with their respective neighboring loops, thereafter turning the welt by putting loops of the first courseof the welt together with loops of the last course and thereafter drawing loops of the first course of the leg fabric: through the loops of the first and last courses of the welt fabric: and then continuing the knitting of the leg; fabric;

3;. A welt fabricstructure comprising a length: ofknitted fabric folded upon itself to form twoply fabric with the terminal courses of the length of fabric together and incident loops of the respective courses joined b a courseof fabric continuous with the welt abric, one terminal course being a transfer course and comprising alternate loops displaced laterally to be, together with their respective next adjacent loops, joined to the loops of other terminal courses incident to the courses of the length of fabric together and incident loops of the respective courses joined by a course of fabric continuous with the welt fabric, the terminal courses consisting of elongated loops, one terminal course being a transfer course and comprising alternate loops displaced laterally to be, together with their respective next adjacent loops, joined to the loops of other terminal courses incident to the next adjacent loops, the displaced loops of the terminal transfer course being entirely on the same side of the other terminal course as the transfer course.

5. A full fashioned stocking welt, comprising a length of fabric folded on itself with the first and last knit courses together, the last knit course comprising alternate loops transferred to their next adjacent loops and together therewith joined respectively to the loops of the first knit course incident to the mentioned next adjacent loops, the transferred loopsbeing entirely on the same side of the first knit course as the last knit course.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

' ALBERT E. MARGERISON.

CARL R. HAHN. 

